‘I have two stories for you today, one funny and the other a little serious. Which one do you want to listen to first?’ asked Swara, the volunteer at the Jorabagan police station centre. ‘The funny one!’ the children replied in unison. Swara then told them a story about a father and son who were…
We began the storytelling session at Child Care centre with a free wheeling chat about the girl’s day-to-day lives at the home. Since Sonu—the volunteer there—was visiting after a long exam related break and so was I, we thought this might be a good way to reconnect with the girls. We then did a fun…
Notions of gender and gender stereotypes, more often than not, build up in people in their early processes of socialization as children. It can be as trivial as a pink coloured comb belonging to a girl and a black motorcycle belonging to a boy. In our small attempt to create a more gender-neutral classroom space,…
Every year, Golpo Mela—the PeaceWorks Storytelling Festival is celebrated in a way that is slightly different from the previous one. This year turned out to be a landmark one, because Golpo Mela was celebrated twice and in completely different ways. We began the year with showcasing storytelling through films and we ended the year with…
Taking off from our discussion at the South End Park centre, where the children drew and talked about what they liked as a part of an exercise about what they would like to hear stories about, we started off the session at the Alipore Nabadisha centre by talking about what the children don’t like. Garbage…
